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Poetry and Power and Politics
There is a fascination about great riven that
U equaled only by their utility. The thunder of
mighty torrents down rocky mountain sides, the
dreamy pools in quiet forest flans, the silvery
highways of water across the plains have all :
brn celebrated in literature, art and music. And
recently people have been more concerned about :
such things as the power potential of rivers.
Tliui it has been with the northwest's Colum-
bi and Richard Neuberger describes it vividly
in an article for the June Holiday magazine.
H charts the r.ver's course from the Finnish;;
fisiifties at Astoria past lo rafts and mill ponds:
to Portland, Oregon's itaid metropolis which'
' wonders if it can ever snuggle back into its
cur prewar shell as comfortably as before,';
st on past "the cloudy domes of Rainier, Ad-
nil, St. Helens and Hood (which) squat on the;
hon.'jn like hooded goblins at a council fire,";
and waterfalls tumbling "in slender white Cor
in'tuan column? from Oregon crags. to where!
"the river becomts a wide green belly of water.;
byond Celilo" and where-
Atova the Grind Coulee Jam and the bread
rivr-r spray har.gs in the atr like a cloud.
rhnugh the rr.jty plumes, sheep often plod
t m the high crr.crete arches on the long dus
ty trek to distant mountain pastures. A herder
in ieasy denim pants, his shirt open at the
tht 4t, looks ut ! the transmission towers that
K'f vu h like a metallic centipede off toward
Hnf ird. In hirn the simpler wajrs of the fron
tier abide along the Columbia, whether Its wi-t-r-
.plit the stem or dwarf Niagara. Here prog-
and the primitive dwell aide by side.
Th burgeoning r.ew civilization on the banks
of th great Columbia is not without its newly,
!- t t -ri probW rr. however, so Neuberger men-,
ti jus the decrease jh salmon, water pollution,;
sl'im-like housing., race prejudices, potential re-
li"f rosters. '
lint lie looks ahead, too, to the "most specta-
c il -ir of the Columbia's blessings" when mam
m nh storage tar.ks. pumrxJ full of the Colum-;
bn copious fufi '.y pour their contents across
th -uiiit mesas of the Big Bend country, irrM
g4'ina million teres of wasteland and making:
"Til-- ihsit to bloom with 17,000 productive:
fdffii-i
As this issue of Holiday hints, the story of the
P. ific northwest and th? viga of the Columbia1
L j'jsf in the opt r ing chapters. No man can say
wlut the climax will be but there is no doubt
tint th Columbia ha already joined the historic
riv'r of the world as an inspiration to poets,
a rrn!l-".i:e to t. lders. and a prize for politi
CI. fits !
Women MuM Work AUo
In tunes of msmoii there are always those
wh come up vein a ra J y answer to the grow
lug unniplc) rn r.t rolls put the women back
In th home Ut.m !hy belong). Men must
w iik they say r.d women can live off their
hush in is.
Tint this facile solution ts obsolete is shown
by th-? recent ri.e in men's unemployment while
th number of women looking for work has re
nuin.-d about the fame as last year. Women to
diy ate not working for pin money; nine out of
bn of whom are elf-s upporting. according to
th- women's bureau of the department of labor,
tnl they are just as eager to keep their jobs as
t'y men who don t want to subsist on unem
ployment compensation checks.
Nearly 18.000.000 women are working outside
th home today 2 000.000 more than at the be-
f Inning of 1947, and the number is increasing,
he all-time peak tn the number of women
workers was in J644 when 20.000.000. more than
a third of all he women in the country.
In the labor force.
Today about half the working women are
married, 33 per cent are single, and the rest are
divorced or widowed; before the war half the
women's labor force was made up of single
wore en.
These statistics don't mean that the nation's
families are being neglected. The phenomenal
birth-rate of the war and post-war years shows
that women continue having babies even though
they hold down a job on the side. Further, the
biggest Increase in the number of working wom
en comes from the ranks of wives and mothers
whose child-rearing years are over: About the
same number of women under 33 are working
today as in 1940 whereas there are 1.000,000
more women in the labor force between 35 and
45 and almost 2,000.000 more who are over 49.
There hare been changes, too, in the kinds of
jobs women hold down. In 1940, 13.2 per cent
of all working women were in the professional
and semi-professional category, 17.7 per cent
were In domestic service.
The high pay, novelty and patriotic aura of
war work drew millions of women Into Indus
trial jobs. Rosie the Riveter in the shipyard or
plane factory was often an ex-teacher or former
housemaid, and when the war ended she was
rejuctant to return to the wages and restricted
hying of the schoolmarm or the low wages and
social stigma of the servant. If she could, she
joined the clerical, operative or service (not
domestic) force. So, today only 9.2 per cent of
working women are in the professional class and
only 8 5 per cent are domestics. More than half
the nation's office workers are women, more
than half the service workers are women, and
almost half the professional and semi-professional
workers are women, too.
These ladles will be hard to dislodge, no mat
ter how unemployment among male industrial
workers Increases. They will argue, and with
experience, ability, training and necessity are
experience, ability, training and necessary are
the fair determiners of who should work.
Qul Would Oust Stat
Milk Price Board
The Portland City club has adopted a resolu
tion favoring dropping of state control of milk
prices and turning over the job to the federal
department of agriculture's milk marketing di
vision. This division functions where milkaheds
are interstate; so it could operate in Portland.
Whether it could or would set up shop for the
interior of the state we do not know. The fed
eral plan only goes so far as to fix prices for
producers and relates the price for fluid milk
chiefly on the price factories pay for milk for
butter, cheese. Ice cream.
Milk price control, like Banquo's ghost, re
fuses to stay buried. The legislature kicked the
authority around again, this time transferring
it to an administrator to be appointed by the
state board of agriculture. That doesn't become
effective until July. Meantime, Director Peter
son, who continues boss of milk prices until
then, has scheduled a hearing in Portland to
review the price structure.
i It's hard to keep em all happy In price-fixing
i They used to say that nothing was sure but
death and taaea; but the former seems to be
slipping." A business paper reports the reces
sion has hit casket-makers. Deaths were down
two per cent in the first four months of the
year, and funeral directors are overstocked with
coffins.
Queer Tangle Hamporo Labor Issues
51
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By Joesh Also
WASHINGTON. May 21 In
th queer tangle of labor policy,
una fa-t stands c ut. President
Truman still has an excellent
chance of victory over the sup
porters the
Taft - Hartley
act But he la
gravely tmpe ti
ling this chance
of victory, tn or
der to preserve
h;s odd poe
the Persecutest-
Politician - F.a
hibiting - C n-
scious - rl e s 1 1-
U.oe.
Nothing quite
ke tht per
form nce has rr seer Ninoe
tiling. pev;h ' hoe
Tslvvi helpeo trie L.xi--'" nh
B'anlegee Junta to bait the
I.-J;e of Nature, by renting
t. jic any otsl-f k 'ih the
1.1 reservation t
In ew of tr.e drumf-re of
omtraiy prop z r;ia. ran
n t e to often rrpe-trti thjt th
u:i.t-Mlmg cor.fres:'P.ai iitua
ti i i highly ur'jMiibi? ? the
Tift - Hart.ey tct ciefen-Wa.
Shi n K. bert A. Taft himself
hii tiready mace the mo-t ea
!".. e con re i en m his uh-
n e measure With e pie-i-d
nri' leadership, the senate
e I ioue vktuid go far beytMti
Tft i-tnoeun. expunging the
Tf - Hart;e mcl from the ta
ti e i-ks and retaimnc nif
b'i: 20 per cent of Its prvi
w ei . The result nou'd be wund,
tmi-.i: isbor legislation.
Symptomatic cf the ay the
Ciri.tits are running, are impor
ts it tev-ent behind - th - scene
d -v-el-jpcnents in the senate. Th
a!l trio of republican progre
aie. Uea of New York. Morae
of Oi egijn and A.ken of Vermotit,
luvi lway refused to ha v
dhngs with Taft Fur several
v ek they hae also desired to
BS n ach progressive democraU
H !I of Alabama. Douglas of
Illinois and Humphrey of Min
nesota, in preparing their ewn
bi-partisan substitute for Taft
Hartley i
Their motive:, is simple. The
presidentially - sponsored Tho
mas - Leslnki bill has no chance
of passing either house of con
gress. It has no chance because
it falls to recogniie th general
desire for some sort of moderate
regulatory Ubor' legislation.
On th other hand, a Hill
Morse - Douglas - Aiken - Hum
phrey measure; providing for
mild and reasonable labor regu
lation, would have the beat pos
sible chanc- of carrying th se
nate. These progressive demo
crats and republicans were In
broad agreement on principles.
There seemed to b no reason
why they should not cooperat
constructively to paa a sound
labor bill.
Ther has been, and is no
earthly reason : except th pre
sident s attitude When Mors
and Aiken first approached Hill
and Douglas; any cooperative ef
fort was directly discouraged at
a meeting of the senate labor
committee s democratic members,
by the committee chairman. Sen
ator Thomas. it Utah. Senator
Thomas, speak hg for the presi
dent, insisted on standing pat on
the hopeless Thomas - Leslnski
bill. "No compromise" was the
watchword offered.
Since that tim. fortunately.
Hill. Douglas.,- and Humphrey
have decided to ignore the White
House. They have agreed to try
to get together' with Mors and
Aiken (Ires being omitted be
cause he is not a labor commit
tee member i . The chances are
good that these five will now
agree on a program. But again,
their agreement will be fruitless,
if the president commands his
small but : faithful senatorial
band such men as Thomas and
C-aide Pepper of Florida to
vote against any compromise
whatever. TheWictory will then
go, by default, to Senator Taft.
TWi torrr comedy, of living
th opposition the victory by de
fault, has already been played
out in th hous. Soma days be
fore th hous voted on labor
legislation. Speaker Rayburn and
other hous leaders went to th
president to promise passage of
s reasonable compromise. Th
president told them they could
offer a compromise if they chose,
that h would not veto. It but
that h would still denounce ft
from his high, if impotent moral
plnacl.
As a result, no comprorruae
bill was properly sponsored In
th house unUl th right - wing
republican - southern democratic
Wood bill had actually passed.
Raybum then hastily promised
compromise, and succeeded in
having the whole problem sent
back to the hous labor commit
tee. But in the committee a mi
nority of 100 per centers hk
Representatives Wier and Burk
are now preventing action by th
committee's pro - labor major
ity. These men will not budge
because of the president's no
compromise stand and the in
transigence of John L Lewis.
This situation in the house com
mittee actually makes it con
ceivable that there will be no
labor legislation at all at this
session.
Judging from all this, the pre
sident obviously believes that
the posture of Saint Sebastian
is good politics. The extraordin
ary Whitney letter tells the
story. "Bring on your slings and
arrows; I am In the right," is the
Truman line. But wiser politi
cians know that the voters have
rather different tastes in saints.
This includes the labor voters,
the majority of whose union lead
ers strongly approve the Morse
Aiken - Hill - Humphrey - Doug
las line of action. The construc
tive action of a Saint Benedict
or a Saint Jerome is on the whole
preferred to the beautiful but
fruitless poses of conscious mar
tyrdom. iCopjrncht. teas. Mew York Beraid
Tribune Ine.)
PrecincrVotes"
Spell Defeat for
Polk Road Tax
DALLAS. May 21 -fSpecial)-A
proposed $480,000 special road tax
levy was defeated in Polk county
Friday by a vote of 1.380 to 630.
a complete tally today showed.
The 10-mill levy carried in only
five of Polk county's 30 voting
precincts. The levy proposed would
have been raised over a three
year period and would have been
used to improve the county's road
system, which suffered heavy
damage during the past winter.
Precincts approving the meas
ure were Spring alley. Perry
dale. Jackon. Pedee and Rock
Creek. The voting tabulated by
precincts showed this result
Precinct Yes?
Salt Creek 35
Oakdale 30
Rickreail 13
Eola II
. WorlPfJlyithe; peanut pljnt
believed to have migrated: from
Latin America to Europe to Af
rica and then to the United States.
PROUD GIFTS
for the PROUD
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(Continued from page 1)
various federal agencies which
would still function in this area.
One defect of the Davidson draft
of a CVA is that it has not
solved the problem of relation
ship with other federal bureaus,
though as all are under federal
control the possibility of har
mony is much greater than 1f
the CVA were an interstate
agency.
Congressman Horan of Wash
ington tried to preserv local
control with his bill for a com
mission of seven, on each to
be appointed by th governors
of the four northwest states.
But this is a political mongrel.
Governors might name a quar
tet hostile to the purposes cf
the act. Again I cannot imagin
that congress will appropriate
money to be spent on these river
projects except by an agency
under federal control. Th con
stitution gives th president, not
governors of states, power of
appointment to federal offices.
I am not impressed with th
patently ingratiating provision
of Davidson's CVA bill to giv
two places on CVA to "bona
fid residents of th region.
Ther are plenty of poor sticks
and lam ducks out here who
might gt thos appointments. If
th region has men of stature
equal to the task they should be
chosen on merit, not geography.
The simple truth is that the
states and localities hav sur
rendered whetever "rights thy
may hav had in th fields of
reclamation and flood control
and hydroelectric development
to the federal government. Ore
gon burned Its fingers on irri
gation districts several decades
ago. and abandoned the field.
Th Willamette valley showed
littl enthusiasm for flood con
trol until Senator McNary got
th law changed so the federal
government could bear virtually
all the cost. Ohio did male large
Investments through conservancy
districts after suffering damag
ing floods, but now the army
engineers are doing th job on
most of th rivers without cost
to local taxpayers. None of the
states has undertaken a big
hydro project.
In short, we th popl have
turned these capital improve
ments over to the federal gov
ernment. States art busy with
highway building, but they
plead with the government for
substantial contributions.
It is quit late, therefore, to
talk about creating an interstate
agency for regional develop
ment. A far as "states' rights"
art concerned, the important
Item for protection is rights for
use of water as now determined
under state laws and the CVA
bill purports to give that pro
tection. States have no machinery for
administration, no authority for
fund-raising, no body of laws
for government of interstate
projects. The pertinent question
now is how best to organize
federal agencies to do the job
committed to them by popular
demand and congressional action
Comment
Editorial
Xewbry Ceaiflrxa Wrst
Sesptelea
Revolting: Positively revolt
ing! Such is the attitude of Sec
retary of State Earl New bry In
permitting himself to be used by
State Treasurer Walter Pearson
as an instrument for political
disruption of State Tax Com
mission. New bry before has per
mitted himself to receive support
for his personal political ambi
tions from sources which cast a
shadow on his ability to remain
independent of question able
sponsorship, but his earlier repu
tation for business competence
and civic decency had justified
the hope that he could kp him
self above the level of a stooge
for truculent manipulators. While
his legislative record on gam
bling and liquor issues has been
disturbingly parallel with Pear
son's, it was fait that he had that
in him which would enable him
to resist being put to flagrantly
unworthy political uses. H is a
aad disappointment. His hand
some presence, ingratiating per
sonality and the publicity accru
ing to his attractive nam may
result In his nomination and
election as governor in 1930, but
that outcome should bring the
blush of sham to all who fel
prld in good government in Ore
gon. The two successors to Messrs
Fisher and Whaton may make
good, even though Fisher's suc
cessor goes in under something
of a cloud. He may prove out
as batter than a "political cheap
skat," which Is how ex-Governor
Spragu refers to him la
Salem Statesman. It is to be
hoped so. for th sake of th a tat
as wall as for th very person
able young man who has been al
lied politically with the less par
ticular element of republican
party organization.
As for Pearson no one xpe
ted any better. The tax ootnmia
sioner he didn't like wss part of
the administration' in which that
fine gentleman, Pearson's father,
was a part. It was by the vote of
Pearson's father as a member of
the Board of Control with Gov
ernor Martin that Wallace
Wharton was elected tax com
missioner after Rufus Holman
resigned as state treasurer m
December 1039 and Governor
Martin appointed Pearson Sr.
state tressurer. Wharton made a
first class record as tax commis
sioner until h want Into war
service and h resumed that fin
quality of service after he cam
out of th war. But repudiation
of Pearson Senior's attitude In
many matters is no surprise to
those who have observed Pear
son Junior in action.
Newbry's mawkish denial of
connivance with Pearson is un
acceptable. Murray Wad in his
Capital Parade service this week
says: "The changes had been an
ticipated since the first of the
month when Governor McKay
declared h favored keeping th
present commissioners on ac
count of their present good r
ords. Th other two members of
th board of control decided each
would nam a candidate and
lct thm. Secretary of Stat
Ntwbry named Smith and State
Treasurer Pearson names Mac
Lean." As little respect will be
commanded by any denial mad
by Newbry to Wade's rcountal
as is beine paid to his original
denial. Oregon Voter (C. C.
Chapman, editor)
No
71
60
68
34
n
23
30
2S
14
1
12
17
16
33
17
13
48
3
10
19
33
37
33
31
73
47
26
43
33
34
29
70
63
141
80
Total .'.630 1,380
Brush College
Spring Valley
McCoy
Perrydal
BueU !
Jackson
Wlllamlna
Gold Creek
Douglas
Buena Vista
Atrlie
Pedee
Bridgeport
Rock Creek
West Salem 1
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s
Independence 1-
2-
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Monmcvith NE
12
26
19
37
13
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10
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20
.. 3
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13
I
3
10
3
12
NW 17
SW 11
SE 17
rails City North 21
South 13
Dalies 1 39
r I 27
3 , 45
4 32
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Latter Day Saints
Convention to End
In Salem Today
More delegates are expected in
Salem this morning for closing
sessions of the Oregon district
priesthood institute of the Re
organized Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints. About 100
from Oregon and part of Wash
ington were her Saturday.
President J. L. Verhei of Port
land and Bishop Monte Lassiter
of Seattle are conducting the pro
gram which today will include
fellowship at 8:45 a.m., classes
at 10. preaching at 11 by Apostle
C. Oeorg Mesley of Independ
ence, Mo., lunch at noon, class
and concluding business at 2 p m.
Speaker Saturday night was
Evangelist Mark Yeoman of Portland.
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